Focus

When someone engages with EMM, it isn’t just a single “splash” in time. It’s a movement of the Spirit that travels across decades, continents, and generations. 

Michael found a house. He found a generous supporter who believed in the vision enough to purchase it. And the house was placed under the care of Homes for Manheim, or HFM. HFM is an IRS reconized 501c3 nonprofit for the state of Pennsylvania. Its mission is to acquire and steward properties for ministry, offering affordable housing to those in need throughout Lancaster and Lebanon counties. 

We cannot plant all of the seeds on our own, nor do we want to try to do so. EMM is committed to training more workers to help in preparing the soil, planting the seeds, nurturing the sprouts, and harvesting the fields. Our Impact Fund provides the support for us to be able to invest in leadership development locally and around the world. When you support the Impact Fund ,you’re not only helping to fund the integral structures of EMM’s sending capacity, but you are also investing in our combined efforts to raise up and train leaders who will continue to go out and join God with us in this critical work.

On the last three episodes of Focus, we talked about the first three fields: the open, seeded, and sprouted fields. Today, we’ll look at the fourth field: the one that is experiencing the harvest. In the 11 countries that make up the geographic region of Southeast Asia, there are more than 680 million people! The Joshua Project estimates that nearly 53 percent of the people in this region would be identified as least-reached.

EMM has been committed to reaching the least-reached people of the world for nearly a century. Our initial ministry to the Luo people of Tanzania was one of reaching out to people who had not heard of Jesus. This continues to be a central focus for EMM: going to places with “open fields.”